Business Finance Homework Help

Chapter 4: Read Chapter 4 carefully. Please choose ONLY one task of the following three options to finish.(100 pts)

A company needs to build a new two-floor office facilityfor accommodating its 100 employees in a remote area that is not served by public transportation. Assume that, among the 100 employees, the company has one president, two vice presidents, one secretary and five managers. You are assigned as the facility planner to design an efficient and effective office facility. The design work is allocated in such a way:

Task #1: Design and layout one employee parking lot and finish a document justifying in terms of efficiency and effectiveness your choices on the sizes of individual parking spaces, the size of the overall parking space, the accommodation of the handicapped, the entrances and exits, the walk ways, and the relative location to the office building.

Task #2: Design and layout the areas for personal belongings, restrooms, food services and first-aid services and finish a document justifying in terms of efficiency and effectiveness your choices on their sizes, locations, relative locations to other room and accommodation of the handicapped.

Task #3: Design and layout the office rooms for all the employees, a lobby on each floor, a conference room on the first floor and an elevator and finish a document justifying in terms of efficiency and effectiveness your choices on their types, sizes, relative location and accommodation of the four handicapped.

Chapter 5 (100 pts)

1. A unit load plays an important role in counting the materials flows and calculating their associated costs, which further help to determine a materials handling system and a facilities layout. Then, what is a unit load? (10 pts)

2. A carton is the smallest container for transferring materials or goods. Its size needs to comply with standard industrial equipments, such as pallet-lifting trucks, highway freight trucks and railroad freight trailers, and plays an important role at selecting the right equipment. After you read the following two figures, please describe how the carton size design impacts the efficiency of space utilization, the selection of materials handling equipment, and the choice of the storage racks and the warehouse area. (20 pts)

3. The following figure, in combination with the two figures above, illustrates roughly the design and layout of a materials handling system. Based on the unit loads’ interactions with other components and for a given number of parts (for example, 500,000 parts) to be delivered, please describe how to determine (70 pts):

a) Number of layers per unit load

b) Number of unit loads per stack

c) Total number of unit loads required to handle the given number of parts

d) Weight of each unit load

e) Height of each unit load

f) Total warehouse area required

g) Warehouse cube utilization

h) Highway trailer utilization

i) Number of truckloads required to deliver the given number of parts